Joshua Davis, a 38-year-old Black man from Houston, was shot and killed during the predawn hours of December 7, 2022, on Sam Wilson Street in east Houston near the Fifth Ward. Officers were dispatched after residents reported gunfire; at about 3:50 a.m. they found Davis in the street with multiple gunshot wounds. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Initial police work found few witnesses and no suspect description. Detectives released images of three people as persons of interest that same day; the male was later identified as Derek Sam Anderson. Investigators eventually named Anderson as the person who shot Davis. Authorities arrested Anderson on January 4, 2023, and the next day charged him with murder in Harris County; court filings noted prior felony convictions and prosecutors sought to hold him without bail. No publicly reported motive or detailed account of what happened immediately before the shooting has been disclosed.

Did anyone in the Sam Wilson Street or Fifth Ward area see or hear anything that night that could help fill the gaps in what led to Davis’ killing?